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Fox News: Solar Industry Isn't Feasible Because America Isn't Sunny Enough
02/12/13, 19:38
The article in Forbes is much better reasoned, and explains why Moore's law is misleading in this context. |
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Fox News: Solar Industry Isn't Feasible Because America Isn't Sunny Enough
02/12/13, 11:14
fatatty,
Give me an example of what a "nanomaterial" is and how it increases the efficiency of a solar cell. As far as I know, all materials are made out of nano-parts (e.g. wood).
There is a difference between science and what is in the press releases written by journals/university departments. |
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Fox News: Solar Industry Isn't Feasible Because America Isn't Sunny Enough
02/12/13, 03:10
Look, I'm aware of energy storage solutions, but they do have a lot of problems.
Here is a positive and, perhaps, more honest overview of the challenges:
http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/cms/8996/9082.aspx
my point is that it is unfair to label anyone critical of the approach as an oil industry shill. There are still lots of big problems to solve, and we haven't solved them yet. Assuming we will is hubris. |
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Fox News: Solar Industry Isn't Feasible Because America Isn't Sunny Enough
02/12/13, 02:35
Alright SolRo, tell me what are the current quantum yields for production cells? |
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Fox News: Solar Industry Isn't Feasible Because America Isn't Sunny Enough
02/12/13, 01:16
Meh,
I don't really buy the solar, believing in it has become something of a "are you one of us?" check.
Quantum yields are horrible, and hard to get a storage solution....I find taking for granted the required breakthroughs for viable solar a touch silly. |
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America's Crazy Obesity Problem
02/02/13, 13:23
It is very scary to think that we might one day find out that there is an underlying pathogen responsible for the for the condition (enabled by efficient food production technology). |
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Meanwhile in .....
01/31/13, 00:03
It's like the video of the basketballs and the guy in the bearsuit. |
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Astro Boy First Episode (1960)
01/29/13, 23:16
The GBA Astroboy game was pretty awesome (I think it was called "omega factor"). It was only after that I realized the obvious inspiration of astroboy on megaman.
It is neat to see how the various robots have changed throughout the different incarnations... |
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'Dude Gets Drunk Without Drinking 1 Drop Of Alcohol'
01/27/13, 15:34
Yes, I presume most of the alcohol goes from your intestine to your bloodstream and is metabolized by whatever cells it gets inside. |
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'Dude Gets Drunk Without Drinking 1 Drop Of Alcohol'
01/27/13, 14:18
I don't have experience with this, but the cloudy vapor is certainly droplets (with what, one would presume, would be the same concentration of alcohol as the bulk liquid)...CO2 is transparent (look around you).
I don't really know what the alcohol concentration in the droplets is (it doesn't look like a large amount of the liquid has been atomized) or how much more quickly it is absorbed through the lungs ...but if it was really that effective, I would think I'd have seen the streets lined with people sitting around with their heads over boilings pots of wine and everyone would own a humidifier filled with vokda? |
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'Dude Gets Drunk Without Drinking 1 Drop Of Alcohol'
01/27/13, 13:01
I doubt it.
I think the cloudy vapor is mostly CO2 and a very tiny volume of the beverage (suspended as droplets). I suppose you could eventually drink some real amount eventually...but it would be like digging a hole with a spoon. |
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Spicoli's dream
01/27/13, 00:58
Apparently Scott Thompson (Kids In The Hall) was up for that role, I remember an interview where he was pretty bitter about not getting it. |
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Bravest Warriors Episode 3
01/26/13, 01:20
I think this is great. I would figure that the target audience would be too old for the 8-bit music though... |
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Cornel West Celebrates Obama's Inauguration
01/25/13, 01:33
I can never hear the word 'tradition' and not think of G.K. Chesterton:
"Tradition means giving a vote to most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.”
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“Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our father.” |
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Best Pad Thai in Thailand
01/22/13, 21:48
I still betting on Burmese being the new Thai.
Tea leaf salad. |
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Gordon Ramsay - Pad Thai
01/19/13, 23:29
Another fun fact, cursory internet searching reveals that the Dali Lama is not vegetarian. |
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Gordon Ramsay - Pad Thai
01/19/13, 01:03
Not all Buddhist momks are vefetarian. I think there are certainly some monks tgat are vegetarian in every culture, but I think most Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, China are not. |
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Ben Shapiro on Piers Morgan
01/12/13, 03:11
I think you can see that Piers wanted to just sort of toss the book aside and realized that would be a bad idea. |
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Quentin Tarantino Channel 4 interview goes badly
01/12/13, 00:33
He did a pretty good job on recovery by the end. |
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Sonic the Hedgehog Fan Film
01/12/13, 00:02
This is the same guy that did the megaman film. I couldn't much of it...but it is a fair bit of work. Good for him. |
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